| Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates ME Alfaro, F Santini, C Brock, H Alamillo, A Dornburg, DL Rabosky, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (32), 13410-13414, 2009 | 927 | 2009 |
| Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation DL Rabosky, F Santini, J Eastman, SA Smith, B Sidlauskas, J Chang, ... Nature communications 4 (1), 1958, 2013 | 688 | 2013 |
| Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray-finned fishes F Santini, LJ Harmon, G Carnevale, ME Alfaro BMC evolutionary biology 9, 1-15, 2009 | 347 | 2009 |
| Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans GJ Slater, SA Price, F Santini, ME Alfaro Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1697), 3097-3104, 2010 | 339 | 2010 |
| A phylogenomic perspective on the radiation of ray-finned fishes based upon targeted sequencing of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) BC Faircloth, L Sorenson, F Santini, ME Alfaro PloS one 8 (6), e65923, 2013 | 325 | 2013 |
| Do reefs drive diversification in marine teleosts? Evidence from the pufferfish and their allies (Order Tetraodontiformes) ME Alfaro, F Santini, CD Brock Evolution 61 (9), 2104-2126, 2007 | 221 | 2007 |
| Iterative ecological radiation and convergence during the evolutionary history of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) B Frédérich, L Sorenson, F Santini, GJ Slater, ME Alfaro The American Naturalist 181 (1), 94-113, 2013 | 199 | 2013 |
| A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent F Santini, JC Tyler Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (4), 565-617, 2003 | 178 | 2003 |
| The effect of habitat on modern shark diversification L Sorenson, F Santini, ME Alfaro Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (8), 1536-1548, 2014 | 123 | 2014 |
| Do habitat shifts drive diversification in teleost fishes? An example from the pufferfishes (Tetraodontidae) F Santini, MTT Nguyen, L Sorenson, TB Waltzek, JW Lynch Alfaro, ... Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26, 1003–1018, 2013 | 116 | 2013 |
| Historical biogeography of Indo‐western Pacific coral reef biota: is the Indonesian region a centre of origin? F Santini, R Winterbottom Journal of Biogeography 29 (2), 189-205, 2002 | 113 | 2002 |
| A multi-locus timetree of surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae, Percomorpha), with revised family taxonomy L Sorenson, F Santini, G Carnevale, ME Alfaro Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 68, 150-160, 2013 | 89 | 2013 |
| The influence of an innovative locomotor strategy on the phenotypic diversification of triggerfish (Family: Balistidae) A Dornburg, B Sidlauskas, F Santini, L Sorenson, TJ Near, ME Alfaro Evolution 65 (7), 1912-1926, 2011 | 89 | 2011 |
| Review and reconstructions of the tetraodontiform fishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with comments on related Tertiary taxa. JC Tyler Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, Museo Civico di Storia …, 2002 | 89 | 2002 |
| New insights on early evolution of spiny-rayed fishes (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha) WJ Chen, F Santini, G Carnevale, JN Chen, SH Liu, S Lavoué, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 1, 53, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| First multi-locus timetree of seabreams and porgies (Percomorpha: Sparidae) F Santini, G Carnevale, L Sorenson Italian Journal of Zoology 81 (1), 55-71, 2014 | 72 | 2014 |
| Speciation in the sea: overview of the symposium and discussion of future directions MP Miglietta, A Faucci, F Santini Integrative and Comparative Biology 51 (3), 449-455, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| The importance of even highly incomplete fossil taxa in reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships of the Tetraodontiformes (Acanthomorpha: Pisces) F Santini, JC Tyler Integrative and Comparative Biology 44 (5), 349-357, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| A new phylogeny of tetraodontiform fishes (Tetraodontiformes, Acanthomorpha) based on 22 loci F Santini, L Sorenson, ME Alfaro Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (1), 177-187, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| A multilocus molecular phylogeny of boxfishes (Aracanidae, Ostraciidae; Tetraodontiformes) F Santini, L Sorenson, T Marcroft, A Dornburg, ME Alfaro Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 66 (1), 153–160, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
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